<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI hits $730 billion valuation with circular investment</strong>: OpenAI secured a massive $110 billion funding round from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, pushing its valuation to nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars. The deal includes ‘circular’ components where Amazon and Nvidia’s investments are tied to multi-gigawatt compute commitments on AWS and Vera Rubin systems. Despite reporting $20 billion in annualized revenue and 50 million subscribers, the company is not projected to reach profitability until 2029. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=8imM4YubL&amp;id=2MnggU5aN&amp;id=3EaP1eYC2" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>RoguePilot vulnerability enables zero-click GitHub repository takeovers</strong>: Researchers at Orca Security uncovered a critical flaw in GitHub Codespaces where passive prompt injection via hidden HTML comments in Issues could hijack GITHUB_TOKEN secrets. By tricking Copilot into checking out a malicious PR with a symlink bypass, attackers could exfiltrate tokens through VS Code’s automatic JSON schema downloads. Microsoft has patched the issue, but it highlights the urgent need for human-in-the-loop guardrails in agentic workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LAZy65aYK" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Block cuts 40% of workforce citing AI efficiency</strong>: Jack Dorsey’s fintech firm, Block, laid off approximately 4,000 employees, reducing its headcount to under 6,000. Dorsey attributed the move to AI tools performing roles more effectively and predicted a broader industry shift toward smaller, AI-augmented teams within the next year. While the stock jumped 24% on the news, analysts remain skeptical about whether the cuts are truly AI-driven or a response to the stock’s 80% decline from its 2021 peak. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=yB8j5HQ6b&amp;id=eacyfq01e" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Safari Technology Preview 238 adds CSS :open and base-select</strong>: The update introduces threaded animation resolution, scroll anchoring, and customizable select elements via appearance: base-select. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/NUI8NcsFJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Type-safe asset management comes to React Native</strong>: The new smart-assets library auto-generates TypeScript definitions for local assets, catching typos at build time and handling dark mode variants natively. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dzP7AsXlg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Perplexity pivots to $200 monthly enterprise orchestration</strong>: Abandoning its ad model, Perplexity launched ‘Computer,’ an agentic tool that orchestrates 19 different models for complex cloud workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/JYBUJ8DSb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GitHub Actions adds support for unzipped artifacts</strong>: Workflows can now upload and download non-zipped files, allowing native browser viewing of HTML and images without manual extraction. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/PunYxjZOL" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon hits final snapshot</strong>: The fourth monthly test image is live with Linux 6.19 and GNOME 50 beta, targeting an official LTS release on April 23. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QvM4ZBs0d" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Rust-based TUI tool deff simplifies git diff reviews</strong>: This new interactive side-by-side reviewer features syntax highlighting, vim-like navigation, and per-file reviewed toggles with local persistence. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QSo6X6mTM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio to GA</strong>: The release includes full type hints, deterministic partitioners, and significant lifecycle management improvements via context managers. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XxtrJwDiH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>The Pentagon’s ethical guardrail shakedown</strong>: Defense Secretary Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to strip safety guardrails from Claude for ‘unrestricted’ military use in autonomous weapons. It’s a classic geopolitical tantrum: demanding a $200 million contract buy the right to bypass Congressional oversight and turn a ‘safety-first’ model into a digital mercenary. Apparently, ‘Responsible Scaling’ only applies until the Department of War sends a Friday deadline. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=DOq4pZFPp&amp;id=XR0JM9qQf&amp;id=IQbfSgesl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The Minimum Lovable Product rebrand</strong>: Cloudflare and others are pushing ‘MLP’ as the new baseline because AI has commoditized basic functionality so much that ‘Viable’ is now an insult. It’s a clever way to say ‘we spent too much on the UI redesign,’ framing emotional connection as the last defensible moat against the machines. If your product isn’t ‘lovable,’ it’s just a legacy tool waiting for a wrapper to eat its lunch. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=BWr8eEc0H&amp;id=IvDJTiclN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>The 8086 CPU emulator in pure CSS</strong>: A developer built a functional 8086 emulator using nothing but CSS, proving once again that ‘Turing complete’ is the most dangerous phrase in web development. It’s a technical marvel that serves absolutely no purpose other than making Chrome sweat and proving that we’ve officially run out of productive things to do with layout engines. Just because you <em>can</em> run CP/M in a stylesheet doesn’t mean you should. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=4aZtPDkZY&amp;id=6JXq0vjdT" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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